#App Center

On the App center page, you can view two tabs: Apps and App collections. You can view and manage apps and app collections across all tenants.

#Apps Management

In the Apps tab, all apps in the app center are listed in the table. The following information is available for each app: app name, app type, the tenant scope, number of app versions, the number of tenants that have this app applied and need update, the modified time, and the user who last modified the app.

Here you can manage the app list available for all tenants. Click Refresh to view the latest app list.

You can also click Export to export the report of apps.

To add a new app to the app center, click Create app and select Create from Intune or Create from Winget from the drop-down list to define the app source. The steps to create an app here are similar to the steps to create an app in a tenant. For details on creating an app, refer to Manage Apps for a Tenant.

If an app is no longer useful, you can select it and click Delete to remove it from the app center.

#View App Details

Click an app to access the App details page. On the top of the page, you can view the app name, type, and created time. There are several tabs on this page, and the tabs are dynamic based on the app type.

• Basics – In this tab, the essentials, app information, tenant scope, and/or version details can be viewed based on the app type.

  Values of the editable fields are highlighted in light blue. Click the pencil button in an editable field to edit the corresponding information.

• Versions – In this tab, you can view and manage the different versions of the app. You can also click Refresh to view the latest version list, or click Export to export the version report into an Excel.

• Tenants – In this tab, you can view the tenants that have this app applied. You can also click Refresh to view the latest tenant list, or click Export to export the tenant report into an Excel.

• Audit logs – In this tab, you can view all action records performed to the current app. You can click Refresh to view the latest audit logs, or click Export to export the audit logs into an Excel.

For Winget apps, you can click Retrieve versions in the upper-right corner of the App details page to retrieve the latest versions of the app from Winget.

#Add Version to an App

Complete the steps below to add a new version to an existing Winget app in the app center.

1. Select the Winget app for which you want to add a new version in the app list, and click Add version. Alternatively, you can click Retrieve versions in the upper-right corner of the App details page.

2. In the Retrieve versions window, you can view the app name, publisher, copyright, license, identifier, and description of the app, as well as the app versions that are newly retrieved from Winget. Select the version that you want to add and click Next.

3. In the App information step of the Add app page, complete the required information for the app and click Next.

4. In the Program step, configure the required installation time, whether to allow available uninstall, and the device restart behavior. Click Next to go to the next step.

5. In the Requirements step, complete the requirements as needed and click Create to add the version to the app.

Complete the steps below to add a new version to an existing Intune app in the app center.

1. Select the Intune app for which you want to add a new version in the app list, and click Add version. Alternatively, you can click Add version in the upper-right corner of the App details page.

2. In the App information step of the Add version page, click Select app package file.

3. In the App package file window, you can select a package from the file hub. All files including the latest version in the package are selectable. Select an app package file from the drop-down list.

   Alternatively, select Create new package to upload a new app package file directly. For detailed information on creating a new package, refer to Create Package.

4. Click OK to select the app package file.

5. Complete the required information for the app version and click Next.

6. Complete the other settings for the app version and click Create to add the new version to the app.

   NOTE

   The other settings are different based on the app type. For details on configuring settings, refer to Create a New App.

#Apply an App to Tenants

To apply an app to tenants, complete the steps below.

1. Select the app that you want to apply to tenants, and click Apply to tenants.

2. In the Version step of the Apply to tenants page, all available versions of the app are listed in the drop-down list. Select the app version that you want to apply.

3. Select the install behavior, architecture, and language for the app version.

   NOTE

   This step is only applicable to Winget apps, as different versions of a Winget app can have different install behaviors, architectures, and languages.

4. Click Next to go to the next step.

5. In the Tenants step, click Add tenants.

6. In the Add tenants window, select the tenants to which you want to apply the app and click Add.

   • Select Tenants that need update to include all tenants that have this app applied, but do not have the selected app version.

   • Select Specific tenants, select one or multiple tenants from the drop-down list, and click Apply to apply the app to the selected tenants.

7. The selected tenants are listed in the table. From the Action drop-down list, select the desired action for each tenant.

   • Create new app – Select this option to create a new app in the tenant with the selected version.

   • Create new app and copy assignments – Select this option to create a new app in the tenant with the selected version and copy the assignments from the existing app to the new app.

   • Overwrite app and assignments – Select this option to overwrite the existing app in the tenant with the selected version and overwrite the assignments of the existing app with the assignments configured for the new version.

   • Overwrite and keep assignments – Select this option to overwrite the existing app in the tenant with the selected version and keep the assignments of the existing app unchanged.

   The Create new app and copy assignments, Overwrite app and assignments, and Overwrite and keep assignments options are only available when you select Tenants that need update above. With one of these options selected, you need to select the existing app in the tenant accordingly.

8. Click Next to go to the Schedule step.

9. In the Schedule step, select Now to apply the app to tenants immediately, or select Specific time and select a date and time to apply the app at this specific time.

10. Click Apply to apply the app to the selected tenants.

#Set as Primary Version

In the Versions tab of the App details page, you can set a version as the primary version by selecting a version and clicking Set as primary. The primary version is displayed with a "Primary version" tag in the version list.

A primary version is the recommended version that is stable and authoritative. Only one version can be set as the primary version for an app. When you set a version as the primary version, the previous primary version will be unset.

#Change Status for App Version

To manually set the status for an app version, select a version in the Versions tab of the App details page, and click Change status. In the Change status window, select the status you want to set for the app version. The available status options are Beta, Preview, Stable, Active, and Deprecated. Click Save to apply the new status to the app version.

#Update to Primary Version

In the Tenants tab of the App details page, Yes is displayed in the Updates available column for the tenants that have this app applied but do not have the primary version.

Select the tenant and click Update to primary version. In the Update to primary version window, select the assignment resolution to Keep current assignments or Clear current assignments, choose to Update now to update the app version immediately or Configure a schedule to update the app version at the specified time, and click Update.

#App Collection Management

In the App collections tab of the App center page, you can view and manage all app collections. An app collection is a collection of apps within the app center that enables you to deploy multiple apps to tenants in bulk.

The following actions are available on this page:

• Create app collection – Click Create app collection in the upper-right corner of the page to create an app collection which will be available for all tenants added to the Device management service.

  1. In the Basic information step, enter the collection name and description. You can select the tenants to which the app collection will be applied in this step or configure later.

  2. Click Next to go to the next step.

  3. In the Apps step, click Add app and select Add Intune app or Add Winget app to select apps from the app center.

  4. Select the apps you want to add to the app collection, and select a version for each app.

  5. Click Add to add the apps to the collection.

     To remove apps from the collection, select the apps and click Delete.

  6. When you finish adding apps to the collection, click Create to create the app collection.

• Apply to tenants – Select an app collection and click Apply to tenants to apply the collection to tenants. Select one or multiple tenants from the drop-down list as the tenant scope. Select Now to apply the app collection to tenants immediately, or select Specific time and select a date and time to apply the app collection at this specific time. Click Apply to apply the app collection to the selected tenants.

  When the Apply app collection action is completed, apps in the collection will be created in the selected tenants in bulk without having to create apps one by one for each tenant. You can go to Process Center to check the process status of applying the app collection.

• Delete – Select one or multiple app collections and click Delete to delete the app collections.

• Export – To export report of app collections, click Export and select Current columns or All columns to export the currently displayed app collections with the currently displayed columns or all columns in the report, and select xlsx or csv as the report type.

• Refresh – Click Refresh to view the latest app collections.

• View app collection details – Click an app collection name to access the App collection details page. You can view the following tabs.

  • Basics – In this tab, you can view the essentials and scope tags of the app collection.

    NOTE

    When you configure scope tags and click Apply changes, you can choose the action to perform:

    • Append – Select this option to merge the scope tags with the existing scope tags.
    • Overwrite – Select this option to replace the existing scope tags with the scope tags of this app collection. This will remove all existing scope tags that are not included in the new scope tags.

  • Apps – In this tab, you can view the apps included in the collection. The app name, type, package, description, and app package file are displayed. Click Refresh to view the latest app list.

  • Audit logs – In this tab, you can view all action records performed on the app collection. Click Refresh to view the latest audit logs, or click Export to export the audit logs into an Excel file.